Easier said than done

My September column talked about the importance keeping a stiff upper lip when being de-friended. "Take the emotion out of it!" I like to say. "People have the right to pick and choose their online peeps!" I'll remind you.

But just now, when I see that a friend I went to bat for, encouraged and truly believed in has de-friended me -- I can't lie to you -- it feels like crap. 

No matter how Facebook-cool I like to think I am, I still get de-friended. We all do. And I don't care so much when they are people that aren't my social friends in real life -- you know, just folks I've met a few times or work peeps I barely know -- but when they are ACTUAL friends, I'll admit that it stings a little.

Thankfully, I'm taking my own advice and am channeling my mother. I can hear her words now: "You are better off knowing who your friends are - and anyway, it's his/her loss." 

(sigh)

Yeah, I know, momma, I know. But it still makes me feel like poop.